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alice wrote:From the front page of today's edition of not-the-Daily Mail:

MIRACLE BLOOD
PRESSURE PILL

/r/dontdeadopeninside?

Qwynegold wrote: どの『シヴィライゼーション』？こっちはもう『シヴィライゼーション３』をしてる。
Dono "Shiviraizeeshon"? Kotchi wa mō "Shiviraizeeshon 3" wo shite ru.
Which Civilization? I myself am still playing Civilization 3.

Alpha Centauri ist der einzig richtig Civ!!!
Alpha Centauri is the only true Civ!!!
( :P )

What do you like doing? Uczyć się języków. Konstruować języki. Językoznawstwo historyczne. Czytać. Dzieje. Grać w golfa. Grać w Civ. Gotować. I don't think you can mix nouns and verbs like that in Polish. You should either turn everything into nouns ( Uczenie się języków. Konstruowanie języków… ) o...

Travis B. wrote:I now also got notifications working in my IRC client.

I'm jealous. If only I had skills like that so I could write a working XMPP/GG client for Linux and use it instead of Kadu (which is unmaintained as of now).

I've watched The Force Awakens and I must say I enjoyed it. (And it was probably the first SW movie I watched and enjoyed.)

I think I'm addicted to memes from /r/traa.

Or maybe it is just a specific way of celebrating it? :P

/[…] ɘ […]/ <[…] e […]> /[…] ə […]/ <[…] i […]> That's a tad unintuitive. Pinyin uses <e> for everything from ɘ to ɤ, so there's at least one precedent. Also, <i> for ə isn't that weird, given that's one of the realizations of unstressed <i> in English. In both of these languages «i» is the higher ...

/[…] ɘ […]/ <[…] e […]>
/[…] ə […]/ <[…] i […]>

That's a tad unintuitive.

Just saw George Herbert Walker Bush described in a headline as "Bush 41". (He was the 41st President of the United States.) I found this usage confusing, as "Bush, 41" is a longstanding newspaper convention for "Bush, who is 41 years old" and I wonder if it would be intelligible at all if not for t...

Mr. Bean

Worth watching a few episodes, particularly as a child. But although it's his most famous export, it's Atkinson criminally underusing his comic talents.

I hate this show. There is something in it that makes my brain crawl backwards.

On the other hand, Blackadder is good.

The IT Crowd

You know I've heard many great things about this, and Richard Ayoede in particular, but haven't actually watched any of it, strange.

'Ve watched a few episodes and it quickly got boring…

Yay! Chastising people because of their fetishes is way too oldschool, now we gotta chastise people because of the names of their fetishes! :D

From a discussion of movies vs books: Maze Runner; they took out the unnecessary romance in the movie and the whole thing was drastically improved. Not knowing offhand whether the book was a novelisation of movie or the movie an adaptation of the book, I can't tell which had the romance and which h...

Vijay wrote:

linguoboy wrote:[*] Suck it, the Pole.

"Suck my pole!"

Lol.

linguoboy wrote:[*] Suck it, the Pole.

Well, if you want to keep being incomprehensible, it's your choice…

amazing that /t d n s l/ are so rare. There must be a reasn, such as tracking only pure /t/ isntead of /tɣ/~/tʲ/ etc, since for sure there are more languages with coronal elementals than that! e.g. even /s/ shows up at only about 45% . Yes, also languages where the default pronunciation is dental a...

/ɔː/ isn't a thing in American English As long as the phoneme isn't merged, this designation is — in my opinion — valid, apart from whether the sound itself is realized as [ɔ], [ɑ] or [a]. which is what Trager-Smith was designed for Regardless of whether there is a need for a separate system, I don...

The reason I asked is that I found myself accidentally saying it with /oh/ instead of /ow/ the other day and it didn't sound odd to me, but so far I can't find any examples of that variant in the wild. Supposedly there's also a variant with /oy/ that I dimly recall hearing and perhaps using when I ...

Sleeping cycle? What is a sleeping cycle?

In particular the "U", "G", "R", "W", and "M" glyphs are all the same as glyphs in Gold or would be recognized as orthographical variants of them. I like how you vary between angular and curved shapes for the same glyph, as most people would tend to do in a well-used natural language script. My fav...

Cool.

linguoboy wrote:foliage

Being a L2 English speaker, I would guess either [fɔliˈɑʒ] or [ˈfoli.ɪdʒ].

My coworkers were quite amused when they learned the words hindrance and impediment.

dodekaedr in Polish. One of the few words I would pronounce with an antepenultimate stress (-de-) rather than a penultimate one (-ka-). (Even though diachronically it makes more sense the other way around.)